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23 Feb 2019, 6:31 pm

I feel like the term pride tends to get thrown around a lot and misused. I usually associate it with groups with the same cause as mine but far too radical for my interests...

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23 Feb 2019, 11:15 pm

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

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23 Feb 2019, 11:38 pm

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

Never met anyone in my life who proudly declares to people they first meet that they are "autistic

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24 Feb 2019, 1:01 am

cyberdad wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

Never met anyone in my life who proudly declares to people they first meet that they are "autistic

I don't get the concept on a personal level. I equate pride with achievement and being ashamed with doing a bad thing. Neither of which applies to having autism.

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24 Feb 2019, 1:26 am

I love having Autism.

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24 Feb 2019, 3:11 am

EzraS wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

Never met anyone in my life who proudly declares to people they first meet that they are "autistic

I don't get the concept on a personal level. I equate pride with achievement and being ashamed with doing a bad thing. Neither of which applies to having autism.

Yes exactly, I can understand pride in an achievement but not for having a label...

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24 Feb 2019, 7:46 am

cyberdad wrote:

EzraS wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

Never met anyone in my life who proudly declares to people they first meet that they are "autistic

I don't get the concept on a personal level. I equate pride with achievement and being ashamed with doing a bad thing. Neither of which applies to having autism.

Yes exactly, I can understand pride in an achievement but not for having a label...

I tend to view it as a condition rather than a label. Which makes me wonder if those of us with other conditions should be proud of those too. Can I take pride in my dyspraxia? I don't see how that fits.

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24 Feb 2019, 12:17 pm

My autism is from brain damage.

I can't be proud.

I am ashamed that when I speak, I cant have flowing speech.

Instead, people will laugh at me, and detect "something wrong".

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24 Feb 2019, 12:31 pm

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

In my case this is true. I'm definitely not ashamed of being autistic.

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24 Feb 2019, 12:56 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:

My autism is from brain damage.

I can't be proud.

I am ashamed that when I speak, I cant have flowing speech.

Instead, people will laugh at me, and detect "something wrong".

How did you get autism from brain damage? Autism usually is the brain forming in a different way.

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25 Feb 2019, 12:55 am

LoveNotHate wrote:

My autism is from brain damage.

Please don't say that..

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25 Feb 2019, 12:56 am

warrier120 wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I suppose for some saying they're proud is another way of saying they're not ashamed.

In my case this is true. I'm definitely not ashamed of being autistic.

Pride is achieving something that is personally satisfying...nothing to do with shame

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25 Feb 2019, 1:05 am

Dylanperr wrote:

LoveNotHate wrote:

My autism is from brain damage.

I can't be proud.

I am ashamed that when I speak, I cant have flowing speech.

Instead, people will laugh at me, and detect "something wrong".

How did you get autism from brain damage? Autism usually is the brain forming in a different way.

"Autism" is behavioral traits.

Causes unknown.

I would think "Autism" is common in people with brain damage.

In my case, I was born with my jaw dislodged (severe TMJ disorder) and putting pressure on my brain. Causing decades of mental illness, and damage. Thyroid/Wrong hormones I think is the cause, as both my parents take thyroid medicine.

ASD children are recommended to have their thyroids checked to see if that's the source of their autism.

However, even now with my hormones corrected, and my jaw repositioned , I still have residue brain damage, and functioning problems, which all made it easy to get a 1 hour diagnosis of autism from many doctors.

Everyday is hard, and often I look forward to being dead.

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25 Feb 2019, 1:27 am

LoveNotHate wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

LoveNotHate wrote:

My autism is from brain damage.

I can't be proud.

I am ashamed that when I speak, I cant have flowing speech.

Instead, people will laugh at me, and detect "something wrong".

How did you get autism from brain damage? Autism usually is the brain forming in a different way.

Life may not always be a bowl of cherries, but it beats being dead.

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25 Feb 2019, 1:47 am

My autism and or other neurological problems might be a result of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. I was born premature and was cyanotic.

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25 Feb 2019, 1:58 am

As far as I'm concerned, my autism is hereditary. When I was young and American medical professionals didn't know what the hell Asperger's was, they tried to pigeonhole me as "hyperactive," or suggested I might have received "nerve damage" from being a preemie (I'll stress, these were medical professionals). But without a doubt, both my parents had been on the autistic spectrum though never diagnosed, and that's where mine comes from.

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